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    Senior Member harrell79cj5's Avatar
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    Summer Underquilt...quick and easy

    I made a new summer underquilt with fleece on the inside and a 1.1 oz nylon shell. I guess the quick and easy part depends on whether you can inject thread or not... Took me about and hour and half including all the measuring, cutting, sewing, and running shock cord. It is 46" X 65" has one layer of fleece sewn to the inside of the nylon. I made chanels on all 4 sides when hemming the nylon. I put gros grain on the ends of the side chanels to help hold the pressure point where the shock cord exits the chanel. The end chanels have shock cord with cord locks so they can be vented or closed up. It weighs 15 oz and stuffs to about the size of a 2 litre drink bottle. (side note: anybody else think its funny we use the metric system for some of our drink stuff but everything else uses the standard system?) This is probably good down to 50 degrees or so, no testing yet. This one is actually the wife's. I will make mine either a little longer (full length like hers) or shorter 3/4 length. I like full length on 3 season/winter because of comfort and warmth, and the only reason I would do full length on a summer quilt is that I dont like feeling that shock cord on my feet(yeah I know picky, but hey, I can make it how I like it! ) It works good, but one mod I may have to make is adding attached cord locks to the ends of the side chanels. One problem with using just the nylon chanel and not a gros grain chanels is that the nylon bunches easy and quilt tends to want to slide down and buch up some in the middle. We havent used it enough to know if it will reall be a problem or not. She used it last weekend and it didn't really seem to be a problem once the hammock is occupied. Mainly it is an easy, cheap, lighter weight solution for warmer temps!
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    I like it! and I have several of the 50x60 fleece throws..hmmm
    KM(wandering off to the blanket cupboard..)

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    Looks awesome dude! I agree and am not a big fan of the shock cord on my feet.

    Fronkey

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    Great idea for a summer UQ...would work well with my ripstop fleece TQ. Got enough fleece but it sounds like a trip to Joann's may be in order for some more ripstop...

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    Looks great. I've been itching for something to make and this looks like just the thing, especially since I've got some 1.1 laying around. Nice, simple, and light design.

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    That is very nice. When are you making mine?

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    what type of fleece did you use?

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    Excellent! Well done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdneri View Post
    what type of fleece did you use?
    It was part of a king size fleece blanket I got on sale for cheap! Any fleece throw or kind of fleece would work.

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    I got a sherpa from menards awhile back for $5 bucks that I was thinking about modding for this purpose.
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